Actually, with the history between China and Japan, and all of the anti-Japanese media that is on CCTV, I think it is impressive that anime is so popular in China. I think it is because anime fans are young, and therefore don't remember the war, and a lot of the propaganda TV media is irrelevant to them.

Yes, China has a much larger population (3X?), but the GDP/capita is also a fraction of the US ($57K USD in US vs. $8K USD in CN; 2016 IMF data ), so I think this means that China is more important than the US moving forward, at least wrt anime. Does that logic make sense to anyone else?